So I’m on a nice recovery run this morning minding my own business when a guy drives by with some teenage gangsta in the passenger seat who yells “Short shorts are out of style!” to me. I pointed right at him and said “GO…F*CK…YOURSELF” (sounds better with the Boston accent). He kinda gave me a look and then pulled himself back in the car. I continued running and all was well. Now I am wondering, was I wrong? Should I have not said anything and just kept looking forward? I live in the city so I am used to people yelling crap at me but usually I blow it off, not today. Anyone have any thoughts or similar happenings?
Always yell back…always.
I’ve been known to use a few four letter words directed at people well I’m out training. Most people are ignorant and just need someone to put them back in their place.
This was years ago, like twenty five years ago. I’m running down a residential street minding my own business when an old man yells at me…“Hey, if you have so much energy come back here and mow my yard!”. He was dead serious too.
I should have let it go but I couldn’t, I told the old geezer to go to hell. I felt bad for the next 1/4 mile but I’m sure I did the right thing.
If he had come back and bet the crap out of you I can’t say I would feel sorry for you. Yelling f-off to someone is asking for trouble in my opinion. Why did the comment bother you so much? Just for your future reference, I watched a guy get pulled out of his car in Orlando about 2 years ago and absolutely pummeled by two men. The guys were in a giant 4x4 and had one of those obnoxious train/boat horns that scares the crap out of you? The guy yelled something back and flipped them off when they honked it at the light. At the next light they beat the tar out of him…I’m pretty sure that guy wishes he had kept his pie hole shut. Hey I hated the horn too, but I have better control over my emotions than to blurt out ‘eff off a-hole!’ even though I wanted to do it and more! Just remember that there are people out there in society who don’t value life nearly as much as some of us and to shoot some ‘runner fag’ for so much as looking sideways at them won’t cause them any deliberation or pause for thought…
I just laugh at the comments I get and wave back thinking what a relief it must be to be as dumb as the garden variety American these days.
you get shot where I live for yelling at random people…it goes both ways too surprisingly.
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I was running on the shoulder of a road and this one car came so close at the last second that he brushed my shirt with his mirrow. This lane on the road is like 15 feet wide.
I flipped him off but probably should have held my cool.
A while later some A-hole threw an egg at me on the same stretch of road. Think of a car moving at 40mph towards me, me running 7mph and an egg going 20 mph faster than the car. That hurt a lot. Never got the plate number but it was a black Jeep Wrangler. It may have been the same kids as the ealier incident.
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I’ll shout back if its just a bunch of kids. More often than not, I’ll give a sideways middle finger- think… the “badass” way to hold a handgun version of flipping them off. held high, so they can be sure to see it.
I’ll do the same if someone throws something at me- or squirts water or something (as both have happened, and i know im not the only one)
I got a “SKINHEAD!” shout a couple months ago. A day after shaving my head for a cancer fundraiser. you CANT let that go.
One day you will find the wrong person to yell at and while you are recovering from your injuries you will wonder why stupid comments from people you don’t know bothered you so much.
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In all honesty it was just what came out. I wasn’t even in the middle of a hard interval or anything, just strolling along. As for the whole getting my ass beat, not too worried. I was an Army Ranger and can hold my own, not saying that at any given moment someone can’t get the best of me, just that I’m confident in my abilities to defend myself…plus, he didn’t look like the gun toting type so I wasn’t too worried about that…I live in Providence, not Compton…
I used to really enjoy busting the skulls of people when I was out on runs, usually it was justified, punk gangster types approaching me in the dark as I ran through my neiborhood, that went on for awhile but I think I cleaned them out 
havnt had any such troubles for years. it was very stupid, I could have got stabbed or shot, now, maybe im just not looking for trouble, but those punks seem to be gone.
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army ranger…SWEET!!! I live in the MMA wannabe capitol of the world so any random person could be a jujitsu master…gotta be careful.
It’s funny the stuff you yell back at someone when they startle you out of nowhere.
I’ve had the big truck/big horn thing a few times. I’ve heard “Hey Lance”. A few young stupid girls whistle.
For whatever reason, my standard response (except for the girls) has been “Fuck you. You Fuckers.” No idea where it comes from, it just happens. After my adrenaline has eased up a little, I think - “Wow, that is a really stupid thing to say. That makes no sense at all.”
This video was posted on year a while back, but I love it. You gotta watch the whole thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcVFXboMPkk
He was trying to help you…and he was right. short shorts look gay and advertise that you are available.
Your response was hostile when his shout-out to you wasn’t.
You have given triathletes a bad name.
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Ignore them.
Getting killed will be really macho won’t it? My family having me around is worth a lot more than the temporary satisfaction of telling someone off.
Ignore them.
Getting killed will be really macho won’t it? My family having me around is worth a lot more than the temporary satisfaction of telling someone off.
you dont know what you are talking about, I want my family to remember me as a bad MOFO!!!
Isn’t that the same as saying NO up here? It’s either that or just used as an adjective. The word has no meaning anymore, shame…
Well, Your Honor, it all started when this teenager made fun of my shorts. So to defend my honor I yelled at him. When they got out of the car I knew I could run away but I didn’t want to look like a wimp in front of some teenagers, right? So I stood my ground and snapped their necks. I mean really, what else was I supposed to do?
better to die than let somebody you dont know call you a bad name…
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